Failed to create interpreter venv\bin\python not found

Something weird with the environment I think. Please try creating a new virtualenv from the terminal using the same interpreter.

https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/

Does it work?

I have the exact same issue. Been using PyCharm for years.... first time I ran into this one. 

Andrey Resler, I agree and not sure whats going on with it.  However if I manually set one up like you said, I feel like I am a step closer to a fix...

Python Version: 3.8.1

PIP Version: 19.2.3 (I'm on windows 10 and anytime I upgrade to 19.3.1 it bricks pip and its not functional)

Steps Taken:

pip install virtualenv

Use this if you have to install via a specific user account
pip install --user virtualenv

cd /path/to/project

virtualenv venv

After that it created a venv folder with my environment contents

Went into the settings > Cogwheel > Add > Existing environment > OK

I then ran into a error about setup tools so I ran the following to downgrade

pip install setuptools==40.8.0

Ran the activate script

\path\to\env\Scripts\activate

And now my venv doesn't know what pip is...

even though its in the environment

Any idea why this would be happening?

Sorry, can't say anything specific at the moment, but it doesn't look like IDE-related issue. Also I don't have any issues with updating pip or setuptools to the latest version on Windows 10

I would try re-installing python from www.python.org and checking my PATH variable.

Same exact issue. What's going on? any fixes?

Raga I was able to get this fixed on my computer but I'm not sure if what I did is going to be a fix for you.  I went on a uninstall spree through multiple applications just to check if they were interfering with the access given to Pycharm.  My company has a specific anti-virus/firewall installed on each of our computers and when I uninstalled that service everything started to work again.  From what I can tell it wasn't allowing Pycharm to access my user folder where python and my projects were stored and Pycharm being installed on the root in Program Files.  I thought running Pycharm as an Administrator would fix this but that was not the case.

I did the same uninstall spree. I uninstalled python 3.8.5 and reinstalled it on my local drive. I uninstalled PyCharm twice. I'm still getting the same errors.

I've lost three whole days on this BS.

Jordan,

I took your hint and on my last re-install, I disabled my firewall and it seems to be working. It's off-the shelf internet security software, so I am surprised that something that common can lead to such problems and hasn't been addressed.

Thanks

Roga,

What exactly did you re-install with disabled firewall: Python or PyCharm? I tried to disable it too but looks like it doesn't work for my case. Have you guys got any ideas what should I do more?

Raga Glad to hear you got it to work and I agree it's a bit odd that it's blocking the setup even when ran in Administrator.  When I talked with my IT team, they stated that it could be something with Pycharm having to modify system files and the security software is seeing that as a threat so it throws that process in a sandbox environment which in the end not allowing it to run.

@... Yep it is Comodo, we've had so many issues with it sandboxing or not allowing other services to run so I have the same feelings towards this anti-virus program.  And after a few months of testing, I still have not been able to have it installed and run Pycharm properly.

I can't convince Pycharm to use any virtualenv environment and I'm not running any sort of antivirus.

Have you tried creating a virtualenv from the system terminal using the same interpreter? Does it work?

I got "Failed to create interpreter" without the "venv\bin\python not found" part on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. 

​sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install virtualenv

Solved that for me. 

I hit this all the time, and it's quite painful - like others, this consumes days.

For my own machine, I have found that the only way to avoid this issue is

1. Never to create venv's outside PyCharm
2. Use PyCharm do it using the requirements.txt. 

This makes procedures PyCharm-specific, as doc'd here:

https://github.com/valhuber/ApiLogicServer/wiki/Quick-Start#project-execution

This worked for me, hope it saves others some time.

I have this problem too on Mac.

And maybe this is a Python or pip ENV problem. I solved this by reinstall Python. (Before, I installed python 3.10 use home brew. Then I uninstalled that and downloaded the package from Python.org, after reinstallation this problem is gone.)

I had this same problem today, and found a solution.  I'm using a Mac, and was trying to base my virtualenv on a homebrew installed python@3.10.  For reasons I won't get into, I removed all of homebrew and started from scratch.  This time I never installed python@3.10 using homebrew, but pyenv instead.  After setting up pyenv, I used it to install python 3.10.2, and used this path (/Users/myhomedir/.pyenv/versions/3.10.2/bin/python) for the virtualenv source.  It finally worked perfectly, and makes it easier to install multiple versions of python.

I got the "failed to create interpreter" problem today after installing Ubuntu 22.04, and i managed to solve it by installing pip:

sudo apt install python3-pip

Hi ,

running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in vmware
python version 3.10.4

Using PyCharm 2022.1.1 (Professional Edition) and also got the error
"Directory /home/janrum/PycharmProjects/vision_install/venv/bin/python not found".
when creating the virtual environment via the PyCharm IDE.

I tried to create it via terminal and got an error:

The virtual environment was not created successfully because ensurepip is not
available.  On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv
package using the following command.
apt install python3.10-venv

I ran the command on my terminal: sudo apt install python3.10-venv

I restarted Pycharm and could create the virtual environement without any problems.

Cheers, Jan.

Jan Rummens, bang on, thank you!  :)

Out of interest, how did you diagnose this? I hunted through the intellij logs but there was no info at all on what had gone wrong.

Hi Simon,

I think I googled "ensurepip"

=> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39539110/pyvenv-not-working-because-ensurepip-is-not-available

I had the same problem today after installing pycharm community on Ubuntu running on a virtual machine.

The fix was easy.

When creating a project, Pycharms wanted to look under my account folder for python, but python had been installed during the Pycharm installation in a main directory "Home/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/venv/local/bin"

The fix for me:

- Create a new project in pycharms with Virtualenv environment and say make available to all projects

- Open new project and got to File-Settings-Python Interpreter

-Click add interpreter and use file path:  "Home/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/venv/local/bin" and select the basic interpreter listed.

If you run into this type problem, its probably just finding where Pycharms put python during the installation and point to it.

I had the same issue, turned out that Ubuntu 22 LTS did have pip installed however python3.10 was installed, so I just installed pip into my system and the issue disappeared

​sudo apt install python3-pip

I had the same problem again (see my comment above) but this time i already had python3-pip installed, so that wasn't the issue

To solve it this time i created a virtual env myself

pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv venv

and then added an existing virtual environment from Pycharm

Setup:

• I'm still using Ubuntu 22.04
• PyCharm 2022.3 (Community Edition)

PS: It's strange, i don't know why this problem happened now, i would have thought that the first solution would have resolved it on my system